Re: Stepping up as maintainer for ia64

[Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>]

On 3/8/24 5:28 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 22:35, Frank Scheiner via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 08.03.24 23:00, Peter Bergner wrote:
>>> On 3/8/24 7:16 AM, Richard Biener via Gcc wrote:
>>>> I CCed Jeff who is on the commitee to forward the maintainer proposal
>>>> though I guess this will not go forward as a first step.  Instead
>>>> you are probably expected to show activity on the port, for example
>>>> post the patch series to make ia64 use LRA, get write access to the
>>>> git repository and then be promoted maintainer.
>>>
>>> One other method for showing activity is posting regular testsuite
>>> results on the gcc-testresults mailing list to show the community
>>> the port is "working".
>>
>> I don't want to spam this or the other list each and every week, but I
> 
> Sending test results to the gcc-testresults list is **not** spamming,
> that's what the list is for!

100% agree!  If you look at what we (IBM) post, we roughly post somewhere
around 7 testsuite results per day due to runs on different hardware,
endianness and OS (Linux versus AIX).  So spam ...err... post away!



> If you're testing uncommon targets (e.g. ia64-linux) then sending test
> results to the list is essential so we know the target builds, because
> nobody else is testing it.

Again, 100% agree!

Peter